[doogerdog]

I also use Molly White's write-ups to loosely follow the everlasting crypto train wreck. This particular one is amazingly concise and easy to read. I hope she keeps it up. There is no way I would have the energy to look up all of this on my own.

[wpietri]

Agreed! And I should mention that Molly has a Substack: https://substack.com/profile/6775195-molly-white

I pay her money because I am glad to have her pushing back against the tide of cash funding crypto promotion.

The other two have Patreons that I also support:

https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard/

https://www.patreon.com/amycastor/

[SilasX]

Hold on there. If you're getting coverage like this, where someone comes and takes flattering photos of you, that's the kind of thing you get when you or your supports can fund a PR team to wrangle major journalists into covering you. I think she's fine on support.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/05/29/molly-w...

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/07/11/business/meet-molly-w...

https://www.protocol.com/fintech/molly-white-web3-crypto-ske...

Doesn't mean the criticisms aren't necessary or good, just speaking to the issue of whether you've found a shoestring operation, barely able to survive.

[molly0x57]

lol, I don't have a PR team. None of those articles were solicited by me.

[wpietri]

Excellent FUD. No actual claims, just casting vague aspersions based on nothing but some absolutely generic photos that are typical of what a newspaper photographer will produce.

As long as we're making unsupported allegations, can you prove that you aren't funded by the crypto industry or otherwise benefiting financially from crypto? Because it seems suspicious that you're going to go out of your way to produce high-quality FUD for free.

[SilasX]

Funny how HN is willing to accept that submarines[1] are a thing, but, when it comes to a story with a framing they like, they will robotically defend the notion that these articles were 100% organic content, that some honest, well-meaning journalist decided, with no prompting whatsoever from any interested party, that this person's work merits being covered.

The very fact that they went through the effort and expense to stage some photos for the article means someone is being propagandized. Yes, they do that in other stories -- those are PR-driven too.

>As long as we're making unsupported allegations, can you prove that you aren't funded by the crypto industry or otherwise benefiting financially from crypto?

I didn't provide FUD -- I didn't even dispute the core these that White's ideas are worth listening to! I simply disputed one lesser, ancillary point that I think was over-the-top: that White is somehow short on funding or ability to get her message out.[3] Since you didn't do your research, I even personally made one of the very same criticism[2] as in her annotations.

So tell me, what about my writing made you miss the point this much?

[1] http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34360188

[3] A point which would still be valid even if she weren't the one prompting these stories, by the way.

[tasuki]

> takes flattering photos of you

You know, some people just look good? From the photos you linked, the second one even has rather unflattering lighting.

[wlonkly]

Just look at the photo you linked. The poor woman has no furniture, and you think she can fund a PR team?